Extremist images 'fingerprinted' by tech firms

Facebook, Microsoft, Twitter and YouTube are collaborating to stop violent, extremist images and video being spread via their sites.The four tech firms plan to create a database that contains "digital fingerprints" of the content.The database will be used to screen uploads in order to spot violent ...

....As a result, far from protecting national agricultural objectives, new free-trade agreements are likely to bring increases in cheap food imports. Research commissioned by the National Farmers Union predicts that a post-Brexit UK is likely to see its imports of beef, poultry, butter and milk powder increase. ...

....He also warned that Ireland would not allow itself to be “used as a pawn” in the Brexit talks if the UK tried to use border negotiations to gain wider leverage in Brussels. The European commission welcomed the UK’s position papers “as a positive step towards really starting phase one of the negotiations. ...

.... Ryanair, which has bid for Alitalia, is not believed to be seeking any part of Air Berlin. The Irish airline lodged a competition complaint on Tuesday with German authorities and the European commission over what it claimed was “the obvious conspiracy” between the German government, Lufthansa and Air Berlin to carve up Air Berlin’s assets, excluding competitors and ignoring EU competition and state aid rules. ...

....Mears, which provides services across the UK – delivering more than 6,000 repairs every day to a portfolio of more than 1m homes – said it had had no involvement with Grenfell Tower, nor with any properties run by Kensington and Chelsea council. But it warned that the “tragic events at Grenfell Tower will impact the housing division later this year as clients review the commissioning and safety practices at their properties”. ...

.... First need to secure citizens rights & a financial settlement. A European commission spokesman said: “We will now study the UK position paper on customs carefully in the light of the European council guidelines and the council’s negotiating directives. ...

.... Or so one assumes, from the official self-congratulation. The European commission marks the 10th anniversary of the credit crisis by trumpeting: “Back to recovery thanks to decisive EU action. ...

....Now, though, it is clear that the Bank could have handled the case better. A review commissioned by the Bank’s non-executive directors into the embarrassing chain of events found that the usual processes were not followed when she first joined the Bank in 2013. ...

.... Some manufacturers, including Dyson, have been producing motors smaller than 900 watts for many years. The European commission points out that choosing one of the most efficient models could save you more than £50 over the lifetime of the appliance. ...

.... It is not yet known if Europcar will retain the perhaps tainted Goldcar name. The deal is attractive to Goldcar’s owners and the last thing they want is outraged consumers bothering Europcar’s management or sending letters to the European competition commission, even if these would strictly be irrelevant to the takeover process. ...

....During the darkest days of Thatcher’s de-industrialising, high unemployment, beggar-thy-neighbour dystopia of the early 1980s, there was one European leader who offered hope to the beleaguered ranks of industrial workers in the “rust belt” of former mining, steel, engineering, fishing and shipbuilding towns. For the decade from 1985 to 1995, Jacques Delors, as president of the European commission, not only helped fashion the modern-day EU and its single currency, he refined a new and much more purposeful social dimension: a “social chapter” designed to protect the rights of people at work. ...

....According to the investigation, “rogue” staff at Indian firm Wipro, who resolved high-level complaints and network problems on TalkTalk’s behalf, used the portal to gain unauthorised access to customer data – including names, addresses and phone numbers. Information commissioner Elizabeth Denham said: “TalkTalk may consider themselves to be the victims here. ...

....EU finance ministers will discuss how to force home-sharing platforms such as Airbnb to pay their fair share of taxes and in the right tax domains next month after the French minister for the economy described the current situation as “unacceptable”. The European commission announced on Thursday that a joint proposal from France and Germany would be discussed at a meeting in Tallinn, Estonia, on 16 September. ...

.... Millions of eggs were subsequently removed from sale in Belgium and Germany. The European commission said on Monday that British food safety authorities had been alerted over the weekend that eggs imported from Germany could be dangerous. ...

....Any legal liabilities may be shared with the German chemicals company, Bayer, which has mounted a $66bn (£51bn) takeover bid for Monsanto. The European commission aims to complete a competition probe into the merger by 22 August, amid signs of public unease in Europe and the US. ...

....Ted Hill, who ended up as secretary of the Victorian branch of the Communist party, was an early Slater and Gordon partner. Jennifer Lush, the daughter of Sir George Lush who served on the parliamentary commission of inquiry into Lionel Murphy, was the first female partner. ...

....The newly created role of conflicts officer will report to both the governor, Mark Carney, and Anthony Habgood, the chair of the court which oversees the Bank. The post was announced following a report by Threadneedle Street’s non-executive directors commissioned after Hogg’s departure in March. ...

....Last month, Jeremy Darroch, the chief executive of Sky, said that the company had “walked away” from bidding for some sports rights recently as there was better value in spending the cash elsewhere in the business. Sky has spent years building its entertainment programming, including long-term deals with Game of Thrones maker HBO and launching Sky Atlantic for top-flight shows, and spending hundreds of millions of pounds annually on original commissions such as glitzy Riviera. ...

....Eggs contaminated with a toxic insecticide harmful to humans may have reached shops in the UK. British food safety authorities were alerted over the weekend that eggs imported from Germany could be dangerous, the European commission said in Brussels on Monday. ...

.... It will be made from natural gas using a method known as steam reforming, but Cadent’s plan is to capture the carbon monoxide and small amount of carbon dioxide generated during the process. The captured carbon will be pumped using existing pipelines and stored in Hamilton gas field in the Irish sea, which is due to be decommissioned in the early 2020s – a cost that could be avoided if the facility is repurposed as a repository for carbon. ...

.... At the time, the court of directors of the Bank said it accepted her resignation with “deep regret” and paid tribute to her contributions. A review was commissioned to learn the lessons of Hogg’s case; whether internal changes made following her resignation were enough and what the Bank should do to ensure compliance with the code of conduct, especially among senior members. ...

....About 180 Dutch farms have been temporarily shut down and a criminal investigation has been launched as authorities seek to establish the scale of the problem. A European commission spokeswoman, Anna-Kaisa Itkonen, told reporters in Brussels: “The eggs are blocked. ...

....A4E said in a statement that the problems had been caused “because EU border controls are significantly understaffed to comply with tightened immigration checks”, adding that some passengers had missed flights as a result. It said it had called on the European commission and member states to find a “swift solution” to the problem, citing “shameful pictures” of long queues in airports such as Madrid, Palma de Mallorca, Lisbon, Lyon, Paris-Orly, Milan and Brussels. ...

. The co-chair of a government-commissioned review into increasing the number of women in senior business roles has been accused of being “peculiarly out of touch” after he said female BBC staff allowed the gender pay gap at the corporation to materialise. ...

....6m provision for future restructuring. In June, GMG announced it was moving from its Berliner newspaper format to a smaller tabloid size early next year, which includes selling or scrapping its three specially commissioned £80m printing presses, which will further cut costs. ...

....9m in back pay for 98,150 of the UK’s lowest-paid workers – a 69% increase on last year. It came a fortnight after Matthew Taylor’s government-commissioned report into the world of work, which set out new protections for workers in the “gig economy”. ...

.... The market test is crucial to Greece for not only judging sentiment of the market, from which it has been essentially exiled since the start of its economic crisis, but also for weaning itself off borrowed bailout funds. Speaking after the bond issue was announced, the EU’s economy commissioner, Pierre Moscovici, described the public spending cuts imposed on Greece since it almost went bust as “too tough” but “necessary”, adding there was now “light at the end of austerity”. ...

.... A source familiar with the matter told Reuters the meeting would address claims it was among German carmakers operating a wide-ranging cartel. The European commission said on Saturday antitrust regulators were investigating a possible German automotive industry cartel after a tipoff. ...

....By contrast, Arup’s report found that windfarms could be delivered for a maximum of £50-55 per MWh across 15 years. ScottishPower, which commissioned the analysis, hopes to persuade the government to reconsider its stance on onshore windfarms, which the Conservatives effectively blocked in 2015 by banning them from competing for subsidies and imposing new planning hurdles. ...

.... The two, who live next door to each other and take holidays together, are estimated to be worth almost £2bn in total. According to the Sunday Times, Asda has commissioned external research on B&M with a view to a potential bid, suggesting that Walmart is now prepared to reinvest to prop up the ailing chain rather than offload it. ...

.... While a comprehensive UK-US free trade deal could be a long-term aspiration, it’s not at the front of the queue for businesses – for whom other, more immediate priorities take precedence. It is a stark fact that the US has many of the world’s toughest and most seasoned trade negotiators, whereas the UK has ceded its policy and knowhow to the European commission for decades. ...

....Marshall said that his reservations about a US-UK free trade agreement were shared by businesses across Britain. “The US has many of the world’s toughest trade negotiators, whereas the UK has ceded policy and knowhow to the European commission for decades,” he writes. ...

....“We’d never catered for a wedding before and I had a few sleepless nights wondering exactly what food would come in,” explains Shirley Southwood, who with partner Ann Fairhurst founded the cafe two years ago. She agreed to the unusual commission for what is thought to be the UK’s first “food waste wedding”, despite the prospect of an hour-and-a-half’s drive to the wedding venue in the Cumbrian fields of Hawkshead. ...

....MasterCard welcomed the judgment, saying the claim was “completely unsuitable” to be brought under the collective action regime. A law firm, Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, launched the case on behalf of adults in Britain after MasterCard lost a drawn-out appeal against a 2007 European commission decision that ruled its fees were anti-competitive. ...

....It means cycling fans using their credit cards at the denouement of the Tour de France in Paris on Sunday will get an exchange rate of around €1. 08 once the credit card firm has added its commission. ...

....The judge described Scourfield as an “utterly corrupt bank manager” who, driven by “rapacious greed”, had “got his tentacles into the businesses of ordinary and honest people and ripped them apart without a thought for those affected”. The Thames Valley police commissioner, Anthony Stansfeld, has criticised Lloyds for failing to accept that the scam took place despite “overwhelming evidence”, which he said amounted to a cover-up. ...

....Higgins is adamant that, since the insulation meets the regulations, the problem must be somewhere else: “In the past, we have had a few cases of noise complaints, which we have attended to, and these have been identified as people moving into new accommodation and getting used to the new properties and different background noises. ” Lambeth council, after two years of pressure from the residents’ association, undertook to find a solution for the social tenants, and were in the process of commissioning further insulation. ...